Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Co. v. Schiller

This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace and removed by appeal to the Circuit Court of Jasper county, where the plaintiff recovered a judgment, from which the railroad company prosecutes an appeal to this court. It appears from the evidence that the railroad was built across the plaintiff’s land; that along the north side of this land there was an ordinary road that had been in common use for many years; that the railroad company put in cattle-guards at the crossing of this road and the plaintiff built wing fences up to the cattle-guards, thus protecting his crops; that in…